18 Apr
2019
18 Apr
'19
7:08 p.m.
On 04/18/2019 03:15 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
I was thinking the same thing, but can't find any references
to who invented it. it certainly sounds like the sort of
thing to get a patent on.
Point of interest, my freshman advisor was Bill Papian, who
was Jay W. Forrester's grad student when he invented
coincident-current core memory.
Jon
From: Jon
Elson
As soon as somebody figured out that you could
combine the sense and
inhibit wires, everybody immediately went to 3-wire planes.
I"m suprised the idea wasn't patented. Or maybe it was, and they made the
license widely available at modest terms?